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Associated Press: Russia fully deploys 2 new divisions near Western border

By Associated Press.
A worker walks past a Russian tank painted in the desert camouflage at the permanent exhibition of military equipment and vehicles at Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on September 8, 2016.
Photo by AFP

MOSCOW – The Russian military says it has completed the deployment of two newly formed motorized infantry divisions at the nation’s Western borders.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Nov. 29 the two divisions are stationed in the Belgorod, Voronezh and Smolensk regions near Russia’s border with Ukraine and Belarus.

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